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Chris Friesen Chris Friesen is offline
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Default Replacing main ground rods

Bob F wrote:

Pouring concrete? I have read that tieing the ground to properly
bonded rebar in concrete can make a very good ground.


Around here you can use wire embedded in concrete, but it has to be bare
copper wire embedded in the bottom two inches of the building footings.
(Uses the weight of the building pushing on it to help get better
ground contact.)

Chris